The inaugural game in memory of the founder of the Lanka Lions Cricket Club, Sydney was played at the George Thornton Reserve cricket grounds, Sydney on Sunday the 6th of December 2009, between a team of Over 50 year old Royalists whose prowess was derived more from “text book” cricket played under the open top desk-tops at college, while teachers delivered their discourse on hard to understand subject matter, interspersed with sporadic bouts of street cricket with dustbins for wickets AND the over 50s from Sri Lanka Lions, some of whom had played school and club cricket back in the motherland. While the betting at the commencement of the game was hugely in favour of the latter, the odds fluctuated throughout the day and at one stage threatened to go the way of the underdogs.
